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Provide a way for the user to view and edit a specific part of the page as wikitext, without switching the entire page
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Gryllida on en.wp says that sometimes you just want "to look at source to see how something works or to fix something VE has no interface for" and finds it difficult "to read a massive amount of source for a small thing; a view or edit selection source context menu item is missing", something one could invoke by selecting and right-clicking the part of article in question.


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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:04 AM
bzimport added a project: VisualEditor.
bzimport set Reference to bz61263.

The user also noticed that "Web browsers usually have 'view selection source' menu item".

Duplicate of bug 47779 / bug 52950?

It is my understanding that 47779 is simply asking that one is able to come back to VE after switching to wikicode. Gryllida never wants to leave VE in the first place, but basically asks for a tiny wikicode editor which only shows the source/loads the part of the article s/he's interested in, rather than all of it.

Jdforrester-WMF changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Feb 2 2015, 7:24 PM
Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from VisualEditor: Provide a way for the user to view and edit a specific part of source, without switching entirely to wikicode to Provide a way for the user to view and edit a specific part of the page as wikitext, without switching the entire page.Aug 13 2015, 12:26 AM
Jdforrester-WMF closed this task as Declined.
Jdforrester-WMF set Security to None.

I think this would be extremely complicated and it goes in the opposite direction.